Lymington 10k: Race Report

On Sunday 13th May 2012 I competed in, and finished, my first race. Excluding school sports days.


I probably over-prepared for the race, making sure I had a breakfast of cereal, plus an oaty cereal bar and brought an energy drink (rather than water) with me, into which I'd put a dissolvable tablet supposed to help hydration. Looking back, this was almost certainly overkill. It's 6 miles, not 26.

One Eight Three

A couple of days ago, I received my first ever race number through the post: 183. I tried to think of any sort of significance for that number to me and have, so far, failed. The best I could do was find that if you sum the digits, you will get 12 which is the day of my birth in May and the day before the one on which I will actually race.


The number doesn't have to be significant other than the fact that it matches the number for the chip included in the pack the race organisers sent (it does).

Once upon a beginning

I've decided to enter some races this year for the first time.
   
I've never done anything competitively before, so this is all new ground for me. It seems like the sort of thing that would be good to blog about, if nothing else than for my own interest further down the line.
   
I've set myself a lot of goals; some short term, some long term and some that I may never achieve. All my serious goals are restricted to running, though I have thought seriously about entering a triathlon. I'm a very poor swimmer and haven't cycled in years, but I think competing in the short sprint distance would be an interesting and very difficult challenge.